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Anniversary

Sometimes reflective, recollecting the years spent together, the anniversary poem marks the passage of time, and the couple that endured it, for better and for worse. Browse our selection of poems on the subject.

Vast and gray, the skyis a simulacrumto all but him whose daysare vast and gray, and—In the tall, dried grassesa goat stirswith nozzle searching the ground.—my head is in the airbut who am I…?And amazed my heart leapsat the thought of lovevast and

When she says margarita she means daiquiri.
When she says quixotic she means mercurial.
And when she says, "I'll never speak to you again,"
she means, "Put your arms around me from behind
as I stand disconsolate at the window."
He's supposed to know that.
When a man loves a woman he is in New

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee

Talk to you tonight,I wrote this morning, knowingit would only be the afternoonwhere you are, will be,whole neighborhood stillwrapped in a tule fogthat won’t let up—so you reportedbefore supper while I slept.I almost wrote this